Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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So, Ryan, how about yourself today?
Doing well. Let's start with the news about Reuben Bain, the accidents that he's been involved in. How does this change his status, do you think, for this upcoming draft?
I mean, obviously there's still more to learn. I don't know if we have all the details and know the circumstances, and you give people the benefit of the doubt. I don't know exactly what happened in this accident. it sounds like it is complicated in the sense that it sounds like maybe a lot of NFL teams didn't know about it, which is unusual.
I mean, even in retrospect, you know, with some of the things with Rasheed Rice, you know, that the public learned about maybe some things that happened at SMU, it appeared that NFL teams knew about them, and that was one of the reasons why he probably fell into the second round and was there for the Chiefs. This, it's a little bit, you know, different.
And the circumstances behind it, you know, it's an odd case for sure. So I don't know if we know enough to really make any quick judgments, but it's got to give any NFL team that's thinking about taking him in the early part of the first round some hesitation because, again, you know, it's not even the, hey, accidents happen. I don't know what was the case in this case.
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Chapter 2: What recent news affects Reuben Bain Jr's draft status?
And, you know, hey, Kareem Hunt might have been a failure. Rasheed Rice could be considered a failure in some ways. you know, they've had some players that they have struggled with. So it's not a perfect record.
It's not that you're saying that this is an environment, an organization, and a locker room that you can simply drop any player into and that they're going to conform and follow the straight and narrow. That hasn't necessarily been the case.
Chapter 3: How do accidents impact NFL draft prospects?
And this is different. I mean, this isn't an accusation of violence. It's not, like you said, I mean, there's a difference between careless and reckless and There's a probably, it sounds like a distinction between what happened in this case with Ruben Bain versus what happened with Rasheed Rice. But, you know, it also gets in a little bit, too.
Again, if teams didn't know about this and this is something that Ruben Bain, I understand why he would want to hide it and wouldn't want to reveal it. But, again, I think he would probably have said more about his character if he had said, hey, wait a minute, you know, You need to know about this.
And somewhat you could say, once again, very, very different circumstances, but it reminds me a bit of the Clyde Edwards Hilaire situation. Andy Reid didn't know about his situation and the issue that he had in college when he had to defend his life and his friend's life. And But Clyde knew that he was going to get asked about that, and it addressed it and everything, and there was no hiding it.
I mean, people knew about that, so there's a little bit of that difference there. But again, if that's the case that NFL teams did not know about this and Bain wasn't necessarily being direct about it, that's a concern.
I'm looking up both of the violations of the citations he received, both in 2024 and 2025, were dismissed because of defective citation. And I looked this up. It says it's a traffic ticket or legal document containing critical errors such as an incoherent, missing or false information regarding the defendant, location, vehicle or the charge statute.
It seems weird to me that both times this happened, it just happened to be defective citation. Is that the situation? I mean, it's skepticism, but did he just have a good lawyer and he just beat her up because of who he is?
What I'm wondering is like, is there like a, you know, don't get in trouble and we'll knock this down. You know, like when you get a speeding ticket, you pay double, you get a lawyer and you pay double and they turn it into a broken headlight. Yeah. They take it away from a moving violation. And so if you look back on the records and it says, well, this guy has 16 broken headlights.
Man, how about the bad luck for this guy? Well, no, he had 16 speeding tickets. And you can't have that because they don't let you do that 10 times a year, right? I think it's like only once a year can you do that or something. I don't know what it is. Anyway, but the... But yeah, so that is interesting.
And, you know, the thing that I think is of note and, you know, is all the draft guys are like irritated that people are bringing this up. Have you noticed that? Like Todd McShay fired out something like, teams already know about this. Great. The fans didn't. And some fan base, some city, was going to have a team bring this guy to work in your city.
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Chapter 4: What are the Chiefs' considerations regarding Reuben Bain Jr?
Did you watch, by the way, last night? I'll tell you about it later. I was like, enough. Can we just get the sports news? Anyway, he had a mock draft where he had Spencer Faneau going before the Chiefs even picked. He had multiple tackles up there. And you know who Daniel Jeremiah had going nine to the Chiefs? Jeremiah Love.
No. No. No.
I mean, if he's there, most people don't think he's going to be there, but in this mock draft that he was cooking up, he just did the first 10 picks. Can you see the Chiefs doubling down at running back? Like, okay, we haven't had a running back for a couple years. We're going to have two of them now.
I really can't imagine it because then you're going to ā I'm sure that there's one of the reasons why Kenneth Walker chose Kansas City is is because he was going to be the guy. He didn't have anybody else he was going to have to significantly share the backfield with. I'm sure that was absolutely a factor in his decision.
If you told him that, hey, you're going to be the guy, that's not a situation where you can just call the guy up when you're on the clock and say, by the way, we're checking Jeremiah Love. So I don't know if either one of those guys would probably be real happy with the situation. And again, financially, mathematically speaking, it just makes zero sense.
You know, you're going to guarantee $30 million to Jeremiah Love. You've already guaranteed $30 million to Kenneth Walker. You can't, there's no, there's just no way that it makes any financial sense whatsoever to be guaranteeing $60 million to your running back room in this day and age in the NFL. It's just, I just don't see how the numbers add up.
And maybe there's a world in which it makes sense, Seren, because I do firmly believe that one of the things that the Chiefs has really hurt their offense in recent years has been the fact that they haven't had an effective run game. I mean, the most effective run game they've really had in maybe the last four or five years has been when
uh... you know in the rookie year for president pacheco i mean that was it and yeah i want a super bowl but we've also seen the when the team has a truly effective running back and that often to something to be seen so
Hey, if your thought process is that you want to be ready in case Walker goes down, that you've got another guy that can go in there and keep the offense at a top three level, I can see the point. But things like that, just because they make sense on paper doesn't mean they're going to make sense and work out in real life.
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Chapter 5: How does team culture influence draft decisions?
No. And so, like, if they did it, this offense would have to really be changing. Right? Like, it would have to really be a ground and pound to ā
you know make that worthwhile because even when i mean when walker was signed there was even people like that's a lot of money for a guy we don't really know if andy reed's going to change the offensive to make that um a good value would you add even more to that question if you take someone that like him that high you're sitting in a room with someone who said i wouldn't do that contract right so like to me there were cheaper backs that that wouldn't cost you as much and so
I mean, listen, it would be like them, Matt, in the sense that when they had the bad blocking against the Bucs in the Super Bowl, what did they do? They traded for Orlando Brown. They signed Joe Tooney. They drafted two offensive linemen. I mean, they didn't just kind of try to fix the problem. They threw a boatload of resources.
If they've looked at it and said, you know what's killing us is everything's difficult, everything we have to scheme up, everything we have to trick somebody. Wouldn't it be great if we could just hand the ball and get four and a half yards on average, but every now and then get a big play? Like, we've got to do that. If we do that, that makes everything else fall in line.
Then I guess, you know, stranger things have happened. This would be them throwing a lot of resources at the problem.
Yeah, and hey, this time of year, I get it. We talk about this. Sometimes general managers are straightforward, and sometimes they say things that are true from a certain point of view. I've always considered Brett Veach to be pretty straightforward.
I don't think that he goes out there and just says things that he wants to say to throw us off the loop or anything like that or figure out what's going on.
But one thing he has consistently said over the past and everything like that, and his actions have backed it up for the most part, has been that you have to get value and you have to get premium positions when they're available early in the draft.
For a guy with Brett Veach's philosophy, having the number nine pick overall and taking a position of low premium value when you've got potentially maybe a number one receiver or you've got some edges out there or you've got even, God forbid, an offensive tackle in this year's draft, if you're not taking corner, edge, tackle, receiver positions,
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